Saying The Wright Thing …
Obama to US Jewish leaders: Israel needs to “engage in serious self-reflection.” via Ha’aretz, which goes on to report Obama making what doesn’t really sound like the same demand of Iran.
At the meeting, Obama told the leaders that he wants to help Israel overcome its demographic problem by reaching an agreement on a two-state solution, but that in order to do so, Israel would need “to engage in serious self-reflection.”
On the Iranian nuclear issue, Obama told the leaders that “the door to dialogue is open. If the Iranians do not walk through it, however, we will have to see how we proceed. But it would be a mistake to talk now about what we’re going to do and how we’re going to do it.”
No serious self-reflection for mullahs who want to wipe Israel off the map? Unclear how Obama feels about Hamas rocketry, suicide bombings, roof-tossings, etc., and whether any Palestinian self-reflection is called for.
One of the participants at the meeting asked the president to take a lower profile regarding the public differences between his administration and the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the United States’ demand that Israel freeze all settlement construction activity in the West Bank. “This situation is not helpful,” he told the president, who rejected the request, saying that during the eight years of the Bush administration, such disagreements were never made public but that such an approach was not helpful in advancing the peace process.
Kind of sounds like a White House WTF moment to me.
Also sounds like all of that pulpit-thumping Zionist-bashing the Rev. Wright did at the Trinity United Church of Christ wasn’t a complete waste of time, even if Obama said he wasn’t listening to those parts.
But the Rev. Wright was wrong about at least one thing. It turns out Obama isn’t afraid of offending Jews and Israel at all.
Anyway, Ha’aretz goes out with something else to reflect on.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu met with the Quartet’s Middle East envoy Tony Blair yesterday to discuss ways to improve the Palestinian economy. Netanyahu told Blair that the West Bank’s Palestinian residents could achieve more if they were to increase their cooperation with Israel.
Reflect on what life would be like for Palestinians with an actual economy, an end to checkpoints and barriers, all that, plus schools, TV shows, news programs and sermons that offer something more useful than “Death to Israel.”
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:56 pm on Monday, July 13, 2009
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